Date:         Wed, 9 Feb 2005 13:58:59 -0500
Reply-To:     "Sridhar, Kumar" <nsridhar@MEDAREX.COM>
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From:         "Sridhar, Kumar" <nsridhar@MEDAREX.COM>
Subject:      Question about assigning variables..
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Hi There:

Hi All:

 

Oops, sorry.  One of the disadvantages of not bringing my glasses today
is that I can't see what the subject said in my previous email.  Anyway,
I have a question in regards to the following code.

 

data newt;

      length cvtid $20. cchem $50.;

      merge u1t u2t;

      by trtgrpi lbseq lbtest vtid ;

      cchem=trim(left(put(lbseq,lbseq12.)))||'
('||trim(left(lbsunit))||')';

      cvtid=trim(left(put(vtid,visitnum.))); 

      if vtid=2 then cvtid="Visit 2 (Baseline)";

run;

 

 

In the above code, the variable cchem (which I have defined as being of
length 50) is supposed to take in the numeric variable and apply the
format (lbseq12.) and convert that to a character variable which will
get concatenated to the the variable lbsunit.  What is happening is that
the variable cchem comes out with a length of 18 which is not what I
wanted.  I am not sure what is wrong or what I am missing here.  

 

Your help would be greatly appreciated.

 

 

Thanks and regards

 

Kumar Sridhar